Go Ds

Two things? Why was Kentfield wearing a mask? And why were posters on the state of origin thread apparently scaremongering saying Kossie was going to be suspended due to some incident in that game?!

I posted this hours ago in this thread. Then again it's so easy to skip ahead and not read every post in a long thread.

Apologies if this has already been posted I haven't read everything here yet.

Same here. Of course one can only take so much out of these affairs . Actually we've seen enough teams look unbeatable ind the first third of a seasonyet fade away, so mostly pre-season matches can only be an indicator for early rounds.

Are intra club games better than these games?! Of course those 2 minutes simulations have nowhere near the same gravity as in a Home and away or final s game. But s surely it's better we can go allout in any simulation against another club then against teammates. While I wouldn't be happy to watch 20 of these two minute simulations in a row but why would anyone be bothered by them??

Quite possibly. But new coach and a team that would have surprised a fewthat they missed the finals so badly the last two years - surelay they wanted to put in a good show today. Add to that North just about sunk our year in round two last year. So it's a big relief that we presented today. And they'll go to training next week with a spring in their step.

Chaplin sounds happy.

No Gawn. Also at half and full time first it was pretended North needed a goal with 2 mins left in a real game (they failed). Then at full-time we needed a goal to win in two pretend minutes... we managed to goal with maybe a minute and a bit to go and held on from there so technically we won three times.

All summer I felt that we're probably better than the general football public think. Now I'm probably slightly more confident than even before. Latrellelooks like he'll make the grade.... and then some!

6.7 14 our way

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Maybe. But if the coach and team know they're better than that there's probably no big deal with a loss. Add to that, you know, they're six, eight goals down and think let's just experiment and put some players on that are very rusty and it really doesn't matter. It's really not the same as a Home and away game where a big loss gives one side confidence and the other a dent to theirs plus a dent to theire percentage.

I Can't Believe It's Not Home Brand Butter

This really is the thing. McAdam has had some frustrating things happen to him. That doesn't make him immune to accountability. But good coaches can bend the rules a little bit. Eventually there'll be things he must do out on the field. But we haven't even had a practice match.